Our WiP2 writing workshops are expanding to wider corners of the city, supported by Portsmouth Creates #InOurWords festival, showing that Portsmouth can still be city of literary inspiration.

One year on from beginning our ongoing programme at THEATRE ROYAL, and Portsmouth Bookfest’s Writing Retreats, forty + workshops and several hundred happy writer attendees later, our Portsmouth Creates backing is supporting free workshops at

– Community Kettle CIC Kettle Tales at Cosham Community Kettle
– United Reformed Church Buckland Writing for Wellbeing (workshop series), co-produced with Dr @Sandra Walker of SanPau Creative Wellbeing
– Motiv8 Fratton – Write to be Heard
– coming up Seawords @Coffee at the Pier

along with two workshops at NTR

Flyweight – Fighting Names (poetry workshop), Theatre Royal with Maggie Sawkins Writing from Folklore and Nature, with Victoria Leslie
and my series
Writing for Procrastinators 3-week course Petersfield Museum at Petersfield Museum and Art GalleryWe also– run online sessions for local novelists,– coordinate writing retreats,– send writing news mailouts,– oversee whatsapp groups,– suggest writing critique circlesWe’re hoping to find even more venues and to partner with more local writing groups to offer the broadest range of workshops, from beginners to experienced, in many genres, accessible to all.

 

We’ve been on Victory Online, bbc solent, Express FM, Petersfield’s Shine Radio, and in the Portsmouth Council Flagship mail-out.

 

Please do mention it to friends who want to write — the #Portsmouth literary scene is not the most visible, but we’re here and thriving, as evidence by our dozen brilliant local writer-facilitators – Alison Habens, Tom Sykes, Christine Lawrence, Gary Fyles, Lucy Ashton, Vincent Adams, Maggie Sawkins, Victoria Leslie, with more coming up next year – and our writers from the beginners to those getting published, which is more and more of you.

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